The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-22
THE BUTLERs OF CAROLINA.
Pen Portraits of Senator Buffers Daughters
The Family and its Ancestry.

the New York World gives long
list, illustrated with portraits, Of the
buds who will enter Washington
society this winter. He says:
Senator Butler, of South Carolina,
is one Of the most courtly and hand.
some men in the United States
Senate. and his daughters will be
among the brightest of the rose-buds
of the capital this winter. Miss
Marie Butler had just taste of
Washington society last season, and
Miss Elise will make her first appear.
ance on New Years. They both
seem very pretty. Miss Marie is
very stylish and highly accomplished.
She speaks French fuently, and, like
her sister Elise, is very fond of
horseback riding. Theplcture 1give
you of her is an equestrian one, and
it is taken from an instantaneous
photograph Of her seated on her
favorite horse, Frisette, while stand.
ing in one of the roads of the family
estate, East Hill, near Edgefeld,
S. G.
Ny picture Of Elise, who is a little
more of rosebud than Marie, was
taken at the same time, and it repre-
sents her in riding costume, but does
not show forth the full beauty Of her
features. Miss Elise Butler is
beautiful girl. She is of medium
height, we'll formed and her large
blue eyes look out over fair cheeks,
rosy with olor. Like her sister
Marie, she is good French scholar.
and she will be, as Marie was last
winter, very popular with the diplo-
mats. She is fond of reading, and is
an accomplished talker. Z ne Wash
ington home of the Buffers is in the
most fashionable quarter of the city.
It is within a stones throw Of the
British legation, not far from Blaine's
house, facing Dupont circle, and just
around the corner from where Secre-
tary Manning lived last winter and
where the Count Mitkiewicz lives
now. 1t is a red pressed brick,
bearing the number 1871 P street,
and is very comfortably furnished.
Mrs. Butler comes of one of the beet
families of the Palmetto State, anu
as for the Senator, his ancestors were
the Dukes of Ormond, one of whom
was lieutenant general of the Royal
troops during the Irish insurrection
Of 1641, and who was Lord Lieuten-
ant of Ireland in 1914. He stuck
to the Crown when Cromwell seized
the government. He proclaimed
Charles II in Ireland and made
an unsuccessful attempt to
capture Dublin in 1649. Cromwell,
however, drove him out Of Ireland
during the following year, and
Charles II made him q duke when he
came into power.
The mans name was James Butler
Ormond, and one of his descendants,
Pierce Butler, who was third son of
Sir Richard Butler, of Ireland, came
to this country as a Major in the
British army. He resigned, however,
before the revolution and settled in
Charleston, and it is from him,
think, that the present Butler family
originates. He was q member of the
first United States Senate, and one
Of his sons married Miss Fanny
kemble, the actress. The paternal
grandfather Of the Misses Butler was
in Congress, one of their grsnduncles
was an officer in the American army
and was killed in the Mexican war,
and another granduncle was the
United States Senator in defence of
whom Preston NJ. Brooks, a relative,
assaulted Charles Sumner, inasmuch
as Senator Butler was not at Wash.
ington at the time Summers attack
upon him in the Senate was made.
Senator Buffers mother was Perry,
and she was the youngest sister OF
Commodore Oliver H. Perry, the
hero of the battle of Lake Erie.